Candid

JULY 27, 2023

as measured by total giving. 2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. Still have questions about incorporating Candid’s data set into your research? Data collection focused on the largest 800 funders nationally plus the top 25 grantmakers in each state and Washington, D.C.,

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

iv In comparison, the sharing rate for all other staffing levels is below 60%. For definitions of leader levels and the full list of demographic survey questions and response options, see How to collect and share demographic data. Here, we see a clear trend: Over 90% of nonprofits shared some demographic data about their leader.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Great question! This will provide a frame of reference for this year’s performance in comparison to the previous year, allowing your board to pinpoint key areas they should focus on going forward. This will help you measure improvement year-over-year and hold your team accountable for meeting various goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The vertical is used to label and measure different items. Time Series Comparisons. Step 4: Directly Label.

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

The search bar allows you to type a question about your data like: “how many users came to the site last month?” Custom “User dimensions” from UA is now “User Properties” in GA4 “Goals” in UA have become “Conversions” in GA4 “Segments” used to filter the view in UA are now “comparisons” in GA4 and you can have up to 4.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

As the membership organization for nonprofit technology professionals, it''s an important, and often sticky, issue to understand, communicate, and especially measure. So, how did these various question formats impact responses/results? This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Association CIOs: Ask yourself these six important questions before building your own AMS. So, before tackling your own AMS, ask yourself these six critically important questions: Do you have the resources? Does your association have load testing tools to measure and optimize performance? Read on to find out why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Once consumed, the data can be used to build statistical analyses , make comparisons, and draw conclusions, all without ever needing to speak with anyone from the foundation. The questions we field most often pertain to the story the grants data tells us about where funding is going, where it’s not going, and who does and does not benefit.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

Technology can facilitate the data collection process, theoretically providing nonprofits with all the information they need to answer these questions about their supporters. Measure affinity in real-time. More recent advances in nonprofit technology can help nonprofits organize that data into a useful format and make sense of it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

Question: This question was recently posed to the ASU Lodestar Center’s “Ask a Nonprofit Specialist”: Every time the financial report is made at my organization’s Board meeting, the members seem to either fixate on a number that is not especially meaningful or the opposite: their eyes glaze over in boredom.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Design: Create a comprehensive battle plan for the migration, including how pre- and post-migration quality will be measured. After that, we’ll be able to answer additional questions or help you strategize new projects for improvements in the future. Ask your team a few key questions. Who will we store in the CRM?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

To reiterate, here are answers to a few common questions before we outline the options available: Can I access my old UA data after July 1, 2024? By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. Metrics: Select quantitative measurements like Pageviews, New Users, or Conversions.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

Comparison? Beyond these being practical questions, they’re also heart-centered questions. Beyond these being practical questions, they’re also heart-centered questions. aspects of our work because we’re so focused on what’s concrete and measurable: growth, visibility, program delivery. Was it inspiring?

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

But as any fundraiser worth their salt will tell you – planning is something you need to do, without question. If you start working on something in the year that doesn’t feed into this goal, then you need to question whether it’s worth doing. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting. Fundraising Goals. Create A Path Forward.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. What are the major gift metrics that matter when measuring success? What are the major gift metrics that matter when measuring success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

She also said that the pressure of measurement is not lessening and the drumbeat is getting louder. But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors. She touched on some of the implications for staffing and governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Are you seeing this with donations or perhaps a better ‘Little Bets’ question is what have you learned? We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. Please tell us if you know of one!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Research Questions. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? To understand how visitors interact with the site. Methodology. Overall site visits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. 6 David Geilhufe 04.07.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

a question asked by the Give and Take blog. The closest thing I've seen is a little utility called Twitinfluence - it measures an individual users Twitter network based on the following: First and Second Order Networks. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. Photo by NimagesDR.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

We've written quite a bit on the benefits of crowdfunding campaigns here on TechSoup, including a platform comparison and a webinar called The Wisdom of the Crowd(funding). According to HealBe, the GoBe could count calories burned during a workout by measuring glucose levels in the bloodstream without even breaking the skin.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2016

We also had him share insights on the metrics you should measure. Number of new donors retained into the second year : If you ask and answer the question as to why so many donors leave the first year and what your organization is doing to lose them and hold them, you’ll be on a true track to growth.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 14, 2022

As data-loving professionals, our team gets many questions about what an engagement score is, how to assign members points and how to use the data. The engagement score is not the answer to one specific question. It is part of the answer to almost every question. Consider questions with your business goals in mind.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Some of it happens through the natural human process of comparison. Cooperation with others—when the task involves working in cooperation with others, there are always questions of relative credit. It’s hard enough to measure a whole organization’s progress towards its mission, let alone assign individual credit for that progress.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

There are different ways to go about that, though, which begs this question: Should you stick it out alone or weather-the-storm alongside another organization? Understanding your own goals and your nonprofit’s impact will keep you from getting too caught up in the comparison game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

It is nice to arrive on scene where 800 people in modest surroundings are energetically pursuing questions that have to be answered to build a movement. I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. Note from Beth: This guest post is part 2 of coverage of SoCap 09. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. Generally, she uses Twitter to take the community's temperature and get rapid feedback on questions.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Share your questions and your experiences! from over 635,000 total followers. "No

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

The question I want to ask is, what do web stats really mean, anyway? As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

But a lot of the questions we—and you—have about the nonprofit sector go beyond the information provided on an IRS Form. How are they thinking about impact measurement? ii] As a point of comparison, the proportion of all U.S. In fact, Candid centers much of its work on collecting, standardizing, and making this data available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

He starts with how Lost gave us a control study with a comparison - Gilligan's Island - to compare the complexity. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure. No question that those games have a powerful hold over our us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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